The search engine Google got its name from the word 'googol', which refers to the number one with a hundred zeros after it.
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Japanese engineers were asked to redesign the front end of the Bullet Train because it carried enough speed to create a sonic boom whenever it exited a tunnel. Residents could feel the blast from miles away.
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Ice isn't slippery. What makes people and things slip on ice is water. A thin layer of ice melts when pressure is applied to it and it is this wet layer on top of the ice that is slippery.
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On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
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The oldest living person smoked cigarettes from the age of 21 to 117.
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New York's Central Park is nearly twice the size of the entire country of Monaco.
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There are 2,500,000 rivets in the Eiffel Tower.
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There are approximately three million shipwrecks on the ocean floor, worth billions in value and treasure.
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